Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Spending the week being an artist.
This week I am spending the week being an artist, as much as I can. This is my main goal to be an artist fully, and to inhabit the feeling of 'being an artist' and [opposite of what I did last weekend] aimfully act out the week of an artist, to the best of my ability.
I started yesterday afternoon, when I'd wasted all morning worrying about doing art/ verses sorting out my life/ verses money and finding a job/ verses tidying my house.
I realised I was wasting this precious non-work time, which was at the end driving me to think I needed to work and that art had no reason to it, unless your time and money was so pushed that you needed to reflect and force some creative act out of yourself. With all the time in the world this week, I couldn't make art as there was no point. What is the point? [This reflects other thoughts after Oliver Roy's dancing workshop on saturday] But I was the 'focus point' [a sticker label Oliver gave me] and that means something.
As soon as I decided this, I thought I can do it with a sense of pastiche or theatricality, become a highly-visualised person, recording and making links out of everything, speak in a more ambigious and idea-heavy language and be more open to popping up ideas, short lived art appearing, coming across 'art' moments on the street. Like the smashed tomato jar in westfield that no-one had cleared up, just put up too warning signs either side while speedy londoners threatened to stand and slip on it.
This was inspired by 'doing things without an aim' a two-day workshop with The Yard House Collective last weekend. Hanging out with a bunch of artists slowly seeps into your brain, and is very different from the people I work with, carers and support staff at primary schools. I'm not used to it as much as you'd imagine. I saw I've been harbouring ideas and thoughts to try to appear more un-artist-y.
Q.How do you sustain your practice? 'It shld be your compulsion that keeps you going. I can't give you any advice' Marcus Hervey I retweeted on 12th Sept.
The joke is that I am sometimes an artist, sometimes not, when I introduce myself. Or questioning if I am or not a lot. I have guilt to use the word. An artist who never makes work- but who photographs, writes and records. Am I finished as an artist, or have I only just started to be an artist. Is everyone an artist? [Joseph Beuys]
Recently I started saying 'I'm an artist but I haven't made anything for 2 years'. Although I have but none of it counts as my 'pure' art. Stuff that I make in a room on my own. But this isn't the only art that exists is it? Does art have to be a solo and private making act?
So I am going to be an artist all week. Watch this post!
I started yesterday afternoon, when I'd wasted all morning worrying about doing art/ verses sorting out my life/ verses money and finding a job/ verses tidying my house.
I realised I was wasting this precious non-work time, which was at the end driving me to think I needed to work and that art had no reason to it, unless your time and money was so pushed that you needed to reflect and force some creative act out of yourself. With all the time in the world this week, I couldn't make art as there was no point. What is the point? [This reflects other thoughts after Oliver Roy's dancing workshop on saturday] But I was the 'focus point' [a sticker label Oliver gave me] and that means something.
As soon as I decided this, I thought I can do it with a sense of pastiche or theatricality, become a highly-visualised person, recording and making links out of everything, speak in a more ambigious and idea-heavy language and be more open to popping up ideas, short lived art appearing, coming across 'art' moments on the street. Like the smashed tomato jar in westfield that no-one had cleared up, just put up too warning signs either side while speedy londoners threatened to stand and slip on it.
This was inspired by 'doing things without an aim' a two-day workshop with The Yard House Collective last weekend. Hanging out with a bunch of artists slowly seeps into your brain, and is very different from the people I work with, carers and support staff at primary schools. I'm not used to it as much as you'd imagine. I saw I've been harbouring ideas and thoughts to try to appear more un-artist-y.
Q.How do you sustain your practice? 'It shld be your compulsion that keeps you going. I can't give you any advice' Marcus Hervey I retweeted on 12th Sept.
The joke is that I am sometimes an artist, sometimes not, when I introduce myself. Or questioning if I am or not a lot. I have guilt to use the word. An artist who never makes work- but who photographs, writes and records. Am I finished as an artist, or have I only just started to be an artist. Is everyone an artist? [Joseph Beuys]
Recently I started saying 'I'm an artist but I haven't made anything for 2 years'. Although I have but none of it counts as my 'pure' art. Stuff that I make in a room on my own. But this isn't the only art that exists is it? Does art have to be a solo and private making act?
So I am going to be an artist all week. Watch this post!
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